alligator pear = avocado
all purpose flour = plain flour, unbleached flour
almond paste = marzipan
aubergines = eggplants
avocado = alligator pear
bacon (UK) = Canadian bacon, ham (US)
bacon (US) = streaky bacon (UK)
banger = sausage
bean curd = soybean curd, tofu
beet = beetroot
beetroot = beet
bell peppers = capsicum
bird peppers = serrano chiles
biscuits = cookies
blackstrap molasses = black treacle
black treacle = blackstrap molasses
broad bean = fava bean
brown onion = yellow onion
butter bean = lima bean
Canadian bacon (US) = bacon (UK)
candied fruit = peal
capsicum = bell peppers
cassava = manioc, yuca
castor sugar = superfine granulated sugar
ceci beans = chick peas, garbanzo beans
chick peas = ceci beans, garbanzo beans
chips (UK) = French fries (US)
cilantro = coriander
clams = cockles, donax
cling film = plastic wrap
cockles = clams, donax
cookies = biscuits
coriander = cilantro
cornmeal = polenta, ground corn
cornstarch = corn flour
Cream of Wheat = farina
Crisco = lard, spry
crisps (UK) = potato chips (US)
confectioner's sugar = icing sugar, powdered sugar
courgettes = zucchini, marrow squash
delmonico steak = New York strip, shell steak
donax = clams
double cream = whipping cream
eggplant = aubergine
English pea = green pea, garden pea, peas
essence = extract
extract = essence
farina = cream of wheat
fava bean = broad bean
filberts = hazelnuts
flour, unbleached = all purpose flour, plain flour, strong white flour
flour, whole wheat = wholemeal flour
French beans = haricot verts, green beans
French fries (US) = chips (UK)
gammon = special cured ham
garbanzo beans = chick peas, ceci beans
garden pea = green pea, English pea, peas
green bean = haricot vert, French beans
green onion = long green shallots, scallions
green pea = garden pea, English pea, peas
ground beef = mince, hamburger meat
ground corn = cornmeal, polenta
groundnut oil = peanut oil
habanero pepper = scotch bonnett pepper (similar to)
ham (US) = bacon (UK)
hamburger meat = mince, ground beef
haricot vert = green bean
hazelnuts = filberts
icing sugar = confectioner's sugar, powdered sugar
jam (UK) = jelly (USA)
Japanese cooking wine = mirin, sweet sake
Japanese plum = loquat
Japanese pumpkin = kabocha squash
jelly (UK) = Jell-O (USA)
jelly (USA) = jam (UK)
kabocha squash = Japanese pumpkin
key lime = Persian lime
lady finger = okra
lard = spry, rendered pork fat, suet
light cream = single cream
lima bean = butter bean
long green shallots = green onion, scallion
loquat = Japanese plum
manioc = cassava, yuca
marrow squash = zucchini, courgette
marzipan = almond paste
mince = ground beef, hamburger meat
mirin = sweet sake, Japanese cooking wine
New York strip steak = delmonico steak, shell steak
okra = lady finger
papaya, unripe = pawpaw
pawpaw = unripe papaya
peanut oil = groundnut oil
peal = candied fruit
peas = green pea, garden pea, English pea
Persian lime = key lime
pips = seeds
plain flour = all-purpose flour
plastic wrap = cling film
polenta = ground corn, cornmeal
potato chips (US) = crisps (UK)
powdered sugar = icing sugar, confectioner's sugar
radicchio = red chicory
raisins = sultanas
rasher = strip of streaky bacon
red chicory = radicchio
rind = zest
rutabaga = swede
sausage = banger
scallion = green onion
scotch bonnett = habanero (similar to)
seeded = stoned
seeds = pips
serrano chiles = bird peppers
shell steak = delmonico steak, New York strip
shoyu = tamari, soy sauce
single cream = light cream
soy bean curd = bean curd, tofu
soy sauce = tamari, shoyu
Spanish onion = Bermuda onion
spring onions = scallions
spry = lard, suet
stoned = seeded
streaky bacon (UK) = bacon (US)
strong white flour = bread flour
sultanas = raisins
superfine granulated sugar = castor sugar
swede = rutabaga
sweet sake = mirin, Japanese cooking wine
tamari = shoyu, soy sauce
tempe = tempeh
tempeh = tempe
tofu = bean curd, soybean curd
unbleached flour = all-purpose flour, strong white flour, plain flour
whipping cream = double cream
wholemeal flour = whole wheat flour
whole wheat flour = whole meal flour
yellow onions = brown onions
yuca = manioc, cassava
zest = rind
zucchini = courgettes or marrow squash
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Comments: 12
Spring onions = scallions, not shallots. Shallots are another member of the lily family.
Rasher = slice or strip of bacon, the whole thin, the streaky bit and the back bit.
Gammon is a slice of ham cured in a special way.
Single cream - light cream.
Clotted cream has no US equivalent and is very hard to get here.
We have sultanas AND raisins in the UK, too!
Shell steak is a new one on me - but it may be an English cut. English and Scottish butchery is done slightly differently and often has different names for the cuts.
Green beans are often known as French beans.
What we call aubergines are termed eggplants in Australia and also I think USA?
Coriander seeds need to be heated to extract their flavour.
light cream - single cream
I have seen (especially in British cookbooks on Indian cuisine) the herb Americans call cilantro referred to as "green coriander" - which makes sense when you consider it is the green part of the plant whose seeds give coriander.
Strictly speaking Canadian bacon is not the same thing as Ayrshire or Wiltshire "back bacon", which although cut from the loin as is the Canadian variety is cured and cut differently, with a tail of fat that Canadian bacon does not have. The result is something that although meatier than the American version (and with less shrinkage) is crisper and more flavorful than the ham-like Canadian version.